{"id":236,"date":"2007-05-03T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/podcast-google-evangelism-data-privacy-analytics-yahoo-getting-the-web\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:31:34","slug":"podcast-google-evangelism-data-privacy-analytics-yahoo-getting-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/podcast-google-evangelism-data-privacy-analytics-yahoo-getting-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Google, Evangelism, Data Privacy, Analytics, Yahoo! &#038; Getting The \\&#8221;Web\\&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"113\" alt=\"yum\" hspace=\"7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/yum.jpg\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/>Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a long and wide ranging podcast with Simon Chen the Managing Director of Eight Black Group, based in Melbourne Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes on Simon&#8217;s blog and you&#8217;ll be impressed by his unique communication style. Incisive, funny, insightful, brutally honest are just some of the words that you might think of. I am a huge fan of letting your unique personality shine though in our wonderful blogosphere and Simon does that, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Simon&#8217;s a tough interviewer, you&#8217;ll see that the same blog personality shine through on the podcast. He is funny and does his best, repeatedly, to get me into trouble (<em>you might enjoy that<\/em>) throughout the podcast.<P> Here are some of the questions that he asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did you get into Analytics?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>Does Google interpret the data that passes thru its servers from an analytics perspective and use it to their advantage?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>Why write a book on it?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>What does your job at Google entail &#8211; ie What does an &#8220;Analytics Evangelist&#8221; do?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>Should there be more about teaching people rather than just create complex tools?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>If you were to walk into <a title=\"General Motors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Motors<\/a> tomorrow what would be the three things you would do to the website? What would you insist happen?<\/li>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<li>Should Microsoft quit the search space?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is more, but that should give you a good idea. If any of these questions interest you here are the podcast details&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul><P><a title=\"Podcast With Avinash Kaushik\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/eightblack_analytics_avinash_kaushik.mp3\">An Interview With Avinash Kaushik<\/a> (65 mins, 14.9 mb)<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to admit it is not fun listening to your own voice (for 65 mins!!). There are 87 things you would have said differently, em&#8217;s and ah&#8217;s that you would want to edit out, and then there is worry\/hope that you have added something of value to the brave souls who&#8217;ll listen in.<\/p>\n<p>But you be the judge and tell me what you think, if you do give it a listen, about the podcast, the sometimes controversial topics covered, my answers, and how you think I can do this better. <\/p>\n<p>\nPlease share your feedback via comments. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Like this post? For more posts like this please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/all-posts-site-map\/\">click here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a long and wide ranging podcast with Simon Chen the Managing Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,6,14,9,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-analytics","category-analytics","category-marketing-tips","category-search-engine-marketing","category-web-analytics","category-web-insights","category-web-metrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}